The Medea of Euripides

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Excerpt from The Medea of Euripides: With Introduction and Explanatory Notes for Schools by John H. Hogan Euripides was the son of Mnesarchns a tradesman and Klito erroneously called a herb seller. He was born at Salamis in the Archonship of Kallias, B. 0. 480. He studied painting at first and devoted himself after a time to philosophy. He also studied physics under Anaxagoras as appears from Orest. 982, with which compare Peirith. Fragm. 696. He appears to have studied rhetoric also, under Prodikus and Protagoras, as is seen by the frequent rhetorical declamations &c., Found in his playen He turned his attention to tragedy at an early age, producing his first play when 25 years old. He was an intimate friend of Sokrates, which may partially account for Aristophanes' enmity towards him. His first play was the Peliades, with which he was third. It appears that the total number of his plays was ninety-two, of which eighteen (not including the Rhesus) are extant, while fragments of many others are preserved. Of his extant plays the Alkestis comes first, the Medea second, B. C. 481. In B. C. 408 he brought out the Orestes, and shortly after went to Makedonia, to the court of Archelaus, where he died B. C. 406. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.